We Need To Rewild The Internet
April 23, 2024
Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within.
Source: We Need To Rewild The Internet
This is a long thoughtful piece on how humans turn ecosystems into factories to maximise their output and the consequent collapse of those former ecosystems.
Of a piece with Cory Doctorow’s enshittification ideas we’ve covered recently.
